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Adobe Drops Mac Support For Premiere

Posted by simoniker on from the edged-out-by-fruit dept.

Theaetetus writes "In a story on MacCentral, it's revealed that Adobe Systems is dropping support for the Mac in the new version of video editing app Premiere: 'If Apple's already doing an application, it makes the market for a third-party developer that much smaller,' said David Trescot, senior director of Adobe's digital video products group. In response to the news, Apple issued a statement welcoming Premiere customers to make the switch to the Mac and Final Cut Pro."

4 of 616 comments (clear)

  1. Will they drop Windows support next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    XP comes with Windows Movie Maker. How can Adobe compete with that!?

  2. Re:Adobe afraid of competition? by gpinzone · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess when you are used to being the only bully on the block, and have thus come to enjoy forcing people to pay your extremely high prices (since there isn't anywhere else to go), then you would react in such a non-sensical way to sudden competition.

    I can't tell...are you talking about Apple or Adobe?

  3. Posting summary by The+Bungi · · Score: 5, Funny
    No need to read the comments in this story. Here's the summary:
    • 60 misc. AC offtopic and troll posts.
    • 9 "Dear Apple, I'm a homosexual" posts.
    • 4 "first post" posts.
    • 162 posts from people rationalizing what Apple is doing as "well, it's their platform" or "doesn't matter, I like the Apple product better" or "Adobe sux anyhow".
    • 8 AC posts saying that Apple is no better than Microsoft, promptly modded down to -1, Flamebait.
    • 1 post claiming this is a dupe from last month, promptly bitchslapped.
    • 1 post from mao_che_minh regurgitating the obvious and getting +5, Interesting
    • 3 AC posts puzzling about this weird Apple fetish that afflicts Slashdot, promptly modded down to -1, Troll.
    • 2 posts repeating that OS X is based on BSD and asking for the code.
    • 10 posts accusing Mac zealots of turning a blind eye when their beloved company does things like these because "ooohhhh, shiny", promptly modded down to -1, Flamebait.
    • 12 posts explaining in detail how this is not an anti-competitive move by Apple, promptly modded up to +6, Insightful. Replies to these that are pro-Apple left alone. Dissenting replies modded down as Overrated so M2 won't touch them.
    • One summary post, promptly modded down.
    1. Re:Posting summary by jdawg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hey, you forgot about that guy with the PowerMac 8600 that takes ten minutes to copy files or whatever.